mit press ltd apr 2025 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'How Indigenous peoples have long been at the forefront of knowledge and innovation in currency and payment systems, inventing new methods to store memories, transmit trust, and create reciprocity'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A history of mediated mothering during the last 40 years, with a focus on the psycho-social panics surrounding the inclusion of technology in childcare'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'How can democracies better protect minorities This book offers a new approach to fighting discrimination and inequality in the wake of the US Supreme Court's 2023 decision ending affirmative action'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.Annotationthe seemingly simple act of marking a textis often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irrelevant to social and political concerns. But what if annotation were reimagined as a critical and civic literacy that can inscribe public memory, struggles for justice, and social change In Re/Marks on Power, education researcher Remi Kalir argues that enduring traces of annotation can be read and (re)written to advance counternarratives and more just social futures. Kalir's interdisciplinary approach examines annotation in archives and libraries, on walls and in books, atop maps and monuments, and along byways and all manner of margins to describe the relevance of "re/marks."With a series of vivid and wide-ranging cases, Kalir describes how groups of annotators make public re/marks of resistance and creativity, often with simple tools and accessible methods. These annotations alter familiar texts, oppose hateful ideology, and broadcast solidarity and social activism. Among the book's fresh reads of annotation are considerations of how Harriet Tubman's legacy is remembered and honored, how the US-Mexico border was defined and is restoried, how problematic public monuments are contested and reimagined, and how books featuring LGBTQIA+ topics are classified, censored, and celebrated. Re/Marks on Power honors the actions of annotators, whether eminent or anonymous, and highlights how material traces have mediated justice-oriented possibility. Throughout this book, the author makes visible a new social language of annotation that can be read across time and texts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'How the rhetorical strategy of the US political right functions as a shadow gospel that demonizes many Americans as evil and un-American'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.Picturing Aura is the first book of its kind: an extended historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as our aura. This rich, interdisciplinary study by Jeremy Stolow chronicles the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques of picturing aura, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how its images are put to work in the diverse realms of psychical research, esotericism, art photography, popular culture, and the New Age alternative medical and spiritual marketplace.At their core, pictures of auras are boundary objects that operate simultaneously in multiple conceptual and practical realms, serving varying goals of making art, healing bodies, and exploring the cosmos. Drawing on extensive archival as well as field research, Stolow reconstructs a global history of this boundary-crossing enterprise through its evolving media technologies, markets, and cultural arenas. It is a story shaped through exchanges among professionals and amateurs, scientists and occultists, countercultural artists and entrepreneurs, metropolitans and hinterland figures. With more than 60 full-color illustrations, Picturing Aura brings to light a remarkable, entangled history of picture-making that challenges settled assumptions about religion, art, and science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.The Architecture of the Wire explores the development of telecommunications infrastructure and its impact on the architectural and urban culture of the modern agefrom poles, wires, and cables, to "micro-architectures," such as the théâtrophone and the telephone booth. Starting with the intrepid worldwide infrastructures of the late nineteenth century, Carlotta Darò proposes a new history that explores the multiple links and crossroads of such technical "things" with architecture and art.Based on extensive research of North American company archives, and French institutional ones, and drawing on secondary literature in art and architectural history, media studies, and the history of technology, Darò examines the aesthetic implications of material objects that have forever changed our urban, rural, and domestic environments.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Science competes and should compete with many other influences in public policy. How can it compete more effectively '--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The definitive history of the invention of D&D'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This edited volume uses the concept of fragility as a way to explore the work of care, maintenance, and repair of infrastructure in the anthropocene'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book focuses on the role of infrastructure for the humanities and the constructive capacity of humanistic knowledge for imagining, designing and building both academic and civic infrastructures'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'License to Spill argues that leading a liquid life is characterized by costly maintenance, repair, and monetary expense and is anything but 'natural.' Through a study of controversy, contact, and corrosion, the book considers how life's wet messiness intersects with consumer devices meant to stay dry'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book covers how to build software products with machine-learning components and provides a holistic view of ML systems built to achieve safety, security, usability, fairness in the real world'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book will be the first to bridge the gap between the field of formal methods and safety-critical control in cyber-physical systems'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An undergraduate/MBA textbook for the underserved market of courses on financial technologies and financial services'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A survey of the human hand from an evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience perspective. Argues that the 'invisible hand' of the nervous system is what makes the human hand such an evolutionary success'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This is the second edition of the essential reference and guidebook for SuperCollider, a powerful, flexible, open-source, cross-platform audio programming language'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Catalogue raisonnâe volume 2 on influential artist-architect Tony Smith, focusing on architecture. Released with companion book of critical commentary (Against Reason)'--.